Moores UCSD Cancer Center
Director's Seminar Series
2008-2009

Hosts:	Kun-Liang Guan, PhD Professor Dept. of Pharmacology	Dong-Er Zhang, PhD Professor Depts. of Biological Sciences & Pathology
When:	2nd Wednesday of the month, or as indicated
Where:	Lee and Frank M. Goldberg Auditorium Moores UCSD Cancer Center 3855 Health Sciences Drive La Jolla, CA
Time:	3:30 p.m. - Refreshments; 4-5:00 p.m. - Seminar
Contacts:	Kathy Klingenberg 858 / 822-2001 kklingenberg@ucsd.edu	Zoya Vigalok 858 / 822-2655 zvigalok@ucsd.edu

Date	Speaker	Title
Oct. 15	Douglas Hanahan, PhD Professor of Biochemistry UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center	Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targeting of the Angiogenic Tumor Microenvironment
Nov. 12	Randall S. Johnson, PhD Professor Molecular Biology Section Division of Biological Sciences UCSD	Inflammation, Hypoxia, and Angiogenesis: The Triangular Nature of Tumor Growth and Pathology
Dec.12	Geoffrey Wahl, PhD Professor of Biology The Salk Institute	Unleashing the Guardian: Mouse Models, Mechanistic Tales, and the Development of p53 Activating Strategies
Jan. 14	Michael G. Rosenfeld, MD Professor of Medicine	Tumor Translocations: Are There Common Molecular Strategies and Epigenetic Mechanisms that Underlie Cell Type and Site-specific Translocations?
Feb. 25	Ronald DePinho, MD Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School	Mining and Modeling Cancer Genomes
Mar. 11	James R. Downing, MD Chair, Dept. of Pathology and Associate Director of Basic Research St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	Cancelled
Apr. 8	Xiaodong Wang, PhD George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair and Professor in Biomedical Science University of Southwest Texas Medical Center at Dallas	Smac Mimetics Revealed Multiple Pathways of Cell Death
May 13	Michael Clarke, MD Professor of Medicine Oncology Stanford Cancer Center	Molecular Regulator of Self Renewal
Jun. 10	Thea D. Tlsty, PhD Professor of Pathology UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center	Biological Clues Identify Pre-malignancies at High Risk for Future Tumor Formation